The Cheapest Lawn Care App for One Person

The Short Answer

If “cheapest” means the smallest number on the bill, it is not Mowbius. Three apps in this category have a real $0 tier for a one-person operation, with no time limit: Yardbook’s Starter plan, LawnPro’s Solo plan, and the Solo plan on Homeworks, the platform formerly called Copilot CRM. All three include invoicing, which Mowbius does not. If your budget is zero and it has to stay zero, start there. Prices below were verified in August 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page.

The number changes once you count what the free plans charge in other ways. The cheapest paid flat price for a solo who works from a phone is Mowbius at $59.99 a year, about $5 a month, with no ads, no customer cap, and no cut of your payments. Whether that $59.99 is worth paying comes down to one question: do you bill through software, or do you just need to know who to mow next and whether they paid?

The Free Plans, and What They Include

Yardbook Starter: $0 a month, indefinitely. Customers, scheduling, invoicing, estimates, and basic routing, with no published customer cap. It is paid for by ads in the interface and a Yardbook commission of about 1% on card payments, charged on top of the standard Stripe rate of 2.9% plus 30 cents. Removing the ads means the Enterprise plan at $49.99 a month.

LawnPro Solo: $0 a month, one user, up to 25 customers. The cap is the price. Inside it you get scheduling, estimates, invoicing, online payments, a client portal, and mobile access. The next tier, Startup, is $39 a month, or $29 on annual billing, and lifts the customer limit.

Homeworks Solo, formerly Copilot CRM: $0 a month, one user, up to 50 customers. Card processing runs 3.9% plus 30 cents on this tier. The first paid tier, Growth, is $299 a month, or $219 annual, which is a crew-platform price rather than a solo one.

What the Free Tiers Cost in Practice

Free software is funded somehow. In this category it is funded three ways, and each one has a number attached.

Card commissions. Take a solo collecting $30,000 a year with half of it on cards, so $15,000 of card volume. On free Yardbook, the roughly 1% commission is about $150 a year on top of processing. On Homeworks Solo, 3.9% plus 30 cents a transaction on that volume comes to about $585, against roughly $435 at the 2.9% rate that is common elsewhere, so the gap is again around $150 a year. Neither charge is hidden. Both are real money leaving the business.

Customer caps. Twenty-five customers is a full season for one solo and two months for another. Fifty gives more room. Either way a cap is a cliff: the day you cross it, your options are $39 a month at LawnPro or $219 a month at Homeworks, and the bill arrives in the week you are busiest.

Ads, and the phone problem. Yardbook’s free tier shows ads in a tool you open a dozen times a day. All three of these products are also web-first. Yardbook’s own guidance points iPhone users to the mobile web version, and one Capterra reviewer put the field experience as “The app for iPhone isn’t great.” If your office is a truck seat, that weighs more than the monthly price does.

The Cheapest Flat Price for a Phone-Only Solo

Mowbius is $59.99 a year or $12.99 a month after a 14-day free trial. One price, no tiers, no per-seat fees, no sign-up fee, cancel anytime in the App Store or Google Play. No ads. No customer or job cap. No money moves through the app, so there is no commission for it to take.

The catch, stated plainly: Mowbius has no invoicing, no estimates, no payment processing, no client portal, no automated customer reminders, no QuickBooks or Xero sync, no crew or multi-user support, no web app, and no data export. Payment tracking is manual, meaning you tap “Mark Paid” on a closed job and the Revenue tab counts it. What $59.99 buys is contacts, properties, jobs, a schedule, and revenue tracking in native iOS and Android apps that work with no signal and sync your changes the next time they connect.

Processing costs do not vanish when the software stops touching them, either. Take cards through Square or Stripe directly and you pay their published rate. The difference is that no software vendor is adding a margin on top of it.

Which One Is Right for You

• Free Yardbook if you invoice through software, want nothing upfront, and can live with ads and a commission of about 1% on card payments.
• Free LawnPro Solo if you have fewer than 25 customers and want invoicing plus a client portal, mostly used at a desk.
• Free Homeworks Solo if you are under 50 customers and expect to grow into automations and marketing later, knowing the next step up is $219 a month.
• Mowbius at $59.99 a year if you collect in cash, by bank transfer, or on the spot, and the business runs from a phone that often has no signal.

There is no version of this where one app is cheapest for everybody. A solo who invoices 40 customers by email should not pay for software that cannot send an invoice, and a solo who gets paid at the curb should not watch ads to keep an invoicing feature warm.

If you want the whole field side by side, prices and platforms and caps in one table, read the comparison of every major lawn care app. If free Yardbook is the plan you are weighing against, the ad-free Yardbook comparison works through that trade in detail.